Yes, and don't forget photovoltaics aren't limited to the crust - they can scale upwards, outwards, on top of oceanic deserts and arid lands.

Cover sunny, bleak northern africa in towering photovoltaics panels baby!

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shermantanktop 8 months ago | parent [-]

Labeling a massive geographic zone in an underdeveloped, historically exploited area—one which plays a key role in how the climate works—-as useless, and then converting it to an extractive industry…what could go wrong?

I’m as optimistic as the next person about energy tech, but I hope it doesn’t turn out like yet more colonialism.

	▲	linkregister 8 months ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yeah, it would be terrible to offer the citizens of Chad, Mali, Tunisia, Libya, etc an opportunity to get revenue. Only Western democracies like Norway and Australia are allowed to extract substances!
	▲	the_sleaze_ 8 months ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> as useless It's not useless, it's arid. > which plays a key role in how the climate works As does ever other square meter on Earth, and its natural abundant resource could be leveraged to even greater overall good. > Extractive industry ... like yet more colonialism. I'm not sure how we got here, or what your actual concern is.